India, June 12 -- A Pakistani asylum seeker, who raped a young woman he met in a Nottinghamshire Park, has been jailed in the UK.

As per Nottinghamshire Police, Sheraz Malik, 28, met the girl on Sutton Lawn, Sutton-in-Ashfield, on the evening of Sunday 29 June 2025.

The victim, who was 18 at the time of the attack, was attacked after she was introduced by a friend to Malik and a group of other older men, police said.

"Malik, a Pakistani national, was identified after the arrest of an initial suspect and was later traced to an address in Newcastle," police said in a statement.

After his arrest on 18 July Malik gave no comment answers in two subsequent police interviews including when challenged about damning DNA evidence linking him to...